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We’ve still got some space left for Fall 2019 in our #ixd and #ia masters program. Reach out if you have any questions! http://www.ubalt.edu/cas/graduate-programs-and-certificates/degree-programs/masters-interaction-design-and-information-architecture/ 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

I’m pretty sure “Askew” is the best possible and most fitting name for a city official (especially an auditor) in the history of Baltimore. https://twitter.com/BaltimoreBrew/status/1113405876277338113 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@jeffbigham @krismicinski @pgbovine @wslasecki @johnregehr @moyix @rochci Ah, every time I submit it to an ad engine, they tell me there is no content. I say, “It’s a tool to revolutionize and paradigm shift the process of buying dinner” 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

@jeffbigham @krismicinski @pgbovine @wslasecki @johnregehr @moyix @rochci How did you get a google advertising account for hamhash? I’m having trouble for http://profpizza.com 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@melissa_schober @BmoreDoc And I did have caffeine. No idea why that tweet was so unintelligible 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@melissa_schober @BmoreDoc If about you send me a list of a person’s name, the board they’re on and their home org and I can plot it. Since one person can be on multiple boards, you put multiple entries 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@BmoreDoc @melissa_schober This would be a great job for NodeXL https://www.smrfoundation.org/nodexl/ 🔄 0 👍 5 Original URL

@AlecMacGillis Is that data available for analysis? 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@AlecMacGillis Single stream recycling and project orange cone were the projects of someone who cared about Baltimore, not their political ambition 🔄 0 👍 5 Original URL

@AlecMacGillis Nothing in there surprises me. Although, I’d love to see the age/income/race/homeowner status of voters. I really thought a lot of late 30’s early 40’s downtown white residents were pro-Sheila 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@dillonm @nikifab77 @BmoreDoc @LesterSpence Is UB and @bniajfi at this event? 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

Game designers in the DC/MD area. https://twitter.com/UBaltCAS/status/1113072521040093185 🔄 1 👍 0 Original URL

One was to explain affordances (or not) and mental models and other #ux #design concepts is by relating student experiences with vehicles. Here’s a cool article on Core77 that talks about Cars and HCI. https://www.core77.com/posts/86729/A-Look-at-Six-Car-Design-Specialties-Part-4-The-HMI-Human-Machine-Interface-Designer?utm_source=core77&utm_medium=from_title 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Know what word I don’t get to write very often? Shepherd. Rarely figuratively and almost never literally. 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

RT @eric_hontz: It’s $40 to hold your own baby after delivery in the United States. U-S-A! U-S-A! https://twitter.com/benjancewicz/status/1112552924666834945 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Your @uhaul 24/7 truck system is not good. The office just gave my van away as I was logging in. What did I pay a deposit for? How is this easier? @UHaul_Cares 🔄 1 👍 2 Original URL

@Jpsotomedico @GioVincenti No I was just saying it was cleaned and should be better to work in! 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@jeffbigham What if I just put on http://gregwalsh.com a picture of me riding a carousel? Would that work? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@GioVincenti I cleaned the lab! 🔄 0 👍 3 Original URL

I just learned I no longer need to put a period in front of user names on Twitter. I also just learned that my cordless phone reaches all the way down my street. This is a big week. 🔄 0 👍 3 Original URL

A prototype our kidsteamUB came up with for listening to podcasts on a wrist mounted device for .@nprdesign https://t.co/5JyEaBmsfF 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

A prototype designed by kids in #Baltimore ’s Clifton Park branch of .@prattlibrary . It’s like RedBox but for getting books when the library is closed. https://t.co/xTp8suFPtL 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

You’re not really doing design research until there’s an array of cinder blocks and string. https://t.co/O7LDxGDzeD 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Today I’m cleaning the #whimsylab while waiting for a #ubalt open house. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@EPCOT_Prime I liked the seed boat through the garden center at Lowe’s 🔄 1 👍 3 Original URL

Healthy Holly does not like bikes. https://twitter.com/jemillerbalt/status/1111721939075321858 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@_rnbrewer @Renetta_Tull Any highlights to share? Asking for a friend…yeah a graduate student friend….you don’t know them. 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

There’s a way nastier looking one next to the people in front of me on car 5042 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

What kind of gun (BB, 22) do you think made this hole on the .@mtamaryland Light Rail? Several shots in the glass in different windows. https://t.co/fPWYcRmjl7 🔄 1 👍 1 Original URL

@melissa_schober Full disclosure: I hate it. As a college professor, I interact with more and more parents (now at the grad level…rare but happens). 4th graders need to be able to make mistakes (not doing homework, not studying) and see appropriate consequences to improve…not college ruining. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@melissa_schober Of course, helicopter parents usually enjoy socio-economic privilege so it seems logical to say, as you do, it favors the privileged. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@melissa_schober I talked to one of my kid’s teachers and while she thinks it is bonkers, she said a lot of parents in the school love it. I think it favors helicopter parents and stunts the emotional growth of kids who literally can’t make a mistake in 4th grade or miss out on good HS. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@jeffreyianross @realDonaldTrump Can we a do a closest without going over? 342 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

RT @dapostrophe: This is your periodic reminder that learning styles are not a thing. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@pgbovine @jeffbigham @gingdottwit I had a terrible realization that when I was my kids’ age, my parents’ oldies music of then is same as 1999 to my kids. I wept. 🔄 0 👍 3 Original URL

@jeffbigham @cfiesler @eegilbert I wonder if there’s a bigger gap in productivity between R1s and comprehensives than in the 90’s? I think a set of non-TA 3x3 hour classes/semester still takes a lot of time and efficiencies aren’t realized like the difference between a chi-sq by hand vs R. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@sheepeeh Is it the bus stop? That’s the one I still use. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @marylandzoo: Lilly went on a mission at the @prattlibrary yesterday to find some very special books! Each of the endangered African pen… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@Bsnrunner1958 It’s amazing! 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@jeffbigham Yay ML advertising https://t.co/M2GkC79cze 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

This isn’t that far off from the College Humor one 7 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnpTcrtsN3U https://twitter.com/4danlopez/status/1110921928926285826 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Dearest .@Wendys , this team got selected (surprise!) to go to Houston in 3 weeks to show NASA their extra-vehicular space suit interface. Their work is like the square burger of UI…efficient and fresh. Do you think you can sponsor their food while they’re there? https://twitter.com/GioVincenti/status/1110637106303512576 🔄 0 👍 3 Original URL

Hey .@northropgrumman we’ve sent a bunch of UI/UX people to you for employment…can you sponsor our #UBalt team who got a surprise invite to report to Houston/NASA in three weeks to demo their #AR extra-vehicular space-suit user interface system? They’re defining the future! https://twitter.com/GioVincenti/status/1110637106303512576 🔄 1 👍 4 Original URL

I would love to see 83 gone from south of Falls Road. https://twitter.com/MikeLydon/status/1110735674909573126 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

Our underdog team at #UBalt has been invited to NASA at Houston (as in “Houston, we have a problem”-Houston) to present their prototype for an extra-vehicular user interface system. We’ll need $$ help and lots of amplification so please aid anyway you can. https://twitter.com/GioVincenti/status/1110904699480346626 🔄 5 👍 13 Original URL

The pitch for the show I didn’t know I needed: Mr. Noodle, 1/4th of Designing Women, and Matthew from Downton Abbey star in a horror-themed X-men show where there are no X-men. #legion 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

Does anyone have $600k they can donate to me to create a institute that works with city residents to solve problems through co-design and doesn’t treat Baltimore as a lab? At that donor level, I’ll get you a tote bag and a mug. 🔄 0 👍 5 Original URL

My wife is at a conference where Garth Brooks is singing new stuff about the conference’s subject matter. Time to up your game #CHI2019 #chi2020 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@ColinStarger @JusticeCodes Of all the crazy things I’ve compared myself to, TurboTax has certainly not been one of them. Although the UX on it is really good. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@anthonydpaul @wasbuxton One of my favorite talks was watching @wasbuxton discuss synthesizing vs sampling and how we can prototype better. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@paulmgardner My gut says someone would have to try to do it. I don’t think it could accidentally happen at this point in time. 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

@Noleli @amcvittie that don’t have Mickey on them. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

When did we take all the fun out of being a kid (reduced recess, increased homework, self-worth tied to activities)? Reading A Wrinkle in Time makes me wonder why Meg and Charles Wallace had so much time to save the universe and weren’t on a travel team. 🔄 1 👍 14 Original URL

@joenatoli I do think the science teacher is good. But the curriculum based optics vs substance is making me rethink my commitment to public schools in Baltimore. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

In conclusion, science is about asking questions and figuring how to answer them. Poorly constructed experiments without context that make people feel like they’re doing science (similar to 3D printers in schools) are not helping the next gen of researchers. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@bennytheshap That’s probably why I’m so angry about it. It’s like someone at the district office read the abstract of Kitchen Chem and made this assignment. 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

This is the official city curriculum. Perhaps it started as the good stuff and just got watered down by the time it was put on a worksheet. But part of me feels we have people designing curriculum who are more interested in looking like it is good learning than actual learning. 🔄 1 👍 2 Original URL

This wasn’t science and it wasn’t even the life-relevant learning that .@jasoncyip and .@TammyUMD talk about. It was 100% busy work to make the kids feel like they were doing science when they weren’t. It was essentially, academic theater. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

We totally had the means to do this, but what about other BALTIMORE CITY kids…the ones where 55% of the school district are considered low income? Do they all have the food and home security to work on this endeavor? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

The rubric focuses on taking pictures of the process (60%), answering what was different (30%) and asking what your ideal cookie is. So we spent three nights cooking these cookies and wasting a ton of butter and ingredients for ¯_(ツ)_/¯ from someone who actually likes sci. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

I asked lots of questions about what she thought the point was and she didn’t didn’t have a real answer. I asked about dependent variables and independent variables in both kid-speak and actual science terms and she was like ¯_(ツ)_/¯ 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

I’m not sure what the point of BCPS 5th grade science is. My kid had to bake three batches of cookies where the butter was solid, softened, and melted respectively. First, the recipe was terrible and this was made from my semi-pro baking whiz kid. Second, where’s the science? 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

I made the suggestion last year that .@mtamaryland switch from tickets for one ride to ones that last 90 minutes to make quick trips convenient. The new Charm App supports that and a ticket I pulled said “90 minutes” You’re welcome! 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

@DrRockt0pus I’m sure you can just rent Avatar. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

“To be clear, these passwords were never visible to anyone outside of Facebook and we have found no evidence to date that anyone internally abused or improperly accessed them.” Phew! I’m not worried anymore… https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-passwords-plaintext-change-yours/ 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@CarolSOtt Ok, I thought/hoping it was more sophisticated than that. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@NElmqvist @jeffbigham @rogueCHI I can’t get flight paid for unless go through agent and use T number. I can pay myself and get reimbursed later 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@CarolSOtt What’s that hustle? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@NElmqvist @jeffbigham @rogueCHI We would get in major trouble because of the the “agreements” between purchasing and travel agents. I was told it was stealing resources. When someone had a non work looking package delivered there was a sticker on it that said “Personal deliveries are theft from the state” 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

@jeffbigham @rogueCHI My understanding is it’s a state crime to buy a flight with a department card. 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

@joenatoli I watched all the way through in 2008 before the reboot. For the most part, its setting is ageless but the themes have become more relevant in the age of surveillance capitalism. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

This is my annual “You should watch the 1960’s show the Prisoner” Be seeing you! 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

I’ve re-learned more from the first chapter of this book than any other resource I’ve seen in years. #tenure has given me the opportunity to revisit and rethink my research strategies and processes https://t.co/FM0Qplr4pM 🔄 1 👍 20 Original URL

#CaptainMavel was way better than I thought it was going to be. 🔄 0 👍 4 Original URL

RT @SciEntExchange: “I’m an optimistic guy about AI.” –@benbendc “I’m not.” –@jengolbeck 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

As a researcher of kid stuff, this isn’t even a good book. Wrongly depicted science (rainbow wrongly pictured) and bad grammar make it a bad choice https://twitter.com/justin_fenton/status/1106323418679599104 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@paulmgardner The Korn album? 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

@sweatnap I have everything (well venue) booked for September 24th, 2019 6pm-9pm 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

RT @GioVincenti: Happy #PiDay! Our Applied #IT students are taking a well-deserved break from #programming, so I snuck in the #WhimsyLab an… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @yolayne: I am heartbroken to share that my creative, kind, & wise professor, Dr. Mike Eisenberg of @CUBoulder, died earlier this week.… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

This is the first year in a long time I’m ready for #PiDay . Things sciencey cool are being built at the #UBalt Whimsy Lab today with some #RaspberryPi devices. 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

Inclusive design (specifically co-design) is my thing. I’m glad to see it’s moving into the front and center. My take on including Baltimore kids in the process https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3202768 https://twitter.com/johnmaeda/status/1106164965176684544 🔄 0 👍 4 Original URL

Planning for #Baltimore #ixdd 2019 is moving forward. Venue (#UBalt) is booked and trying to rough out program now. Leaning towards speaker q&a, panel, posters with networking. 🔄 2 👍 5 Original URL

@BELBaltimore @melissa_schober @jillpcarter I’m 99% we got one when MJ was in pre-K 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

Looks like the new season of #GOT had a leak. https://www.wfla.com/news/viral-news/giant-wolf-yuki-who-was-dropped-off-at-a-kill-shelter-rescued-by-wolf-sanctuary/1842402687 https://t.co/OvyyZQ96z4 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @PomBella: Let’s give some perspective to this #CollegeCheatingScandal. While you are all clutching your pearls and gasping, you know t… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Full disclosure: They didn’t, I went to a state school called Bloomsburg University and it was great. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@_rnbrewer Yep…used to be more like 115 but I graduated a lot 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

INFO - I’ve decided to start using military etiquette in all my electronic information. Background: I advise ~100 MS/Cert students + oversee 11 thesis I can receive 100’s of email a day. I wrote almost 1000 messages this year. I read an article about it and it sounded good. 🔄 0 👍 4 Original URL

@KevinACross @eric_hontz We moved from Patterson Park to Mt Washington. I literally had to be dragged kicking and screaming even though all the city-proper progress was slowly disappearing and I wouldn’t acknowledge that. Up here, we walk to school, take the light rail and park under our car port. 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

I hope they release Virtual Tennis is just red and black colors. https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/6/18254019/nintendo-labo-vr-kit-switch 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@Noleli BBEdit FTW. Also because I’ve been using it since 1997 when I won a free copy with Dreamweaver 1.0 at Internet World. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

RT @kalanigordon: Baltimore’s elections are disproportionately influenced by campaign donors who are white, wealthy and not city residents,… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@ianpowerOMG Why are there so many guitars????? https://t.co/ZGvMrYMrAB 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@ianpowerOMG Then there’s these two. Should I wonder why they’re such hard asses? Should I be concerned with the lurching boy’s well-being? https://t.co/wQrSrHonls 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@ianpowerOMG Did you watch the video recently? I get the white hair and birth marks. But the kid who felt the spirit was worse than that? For 20 years I thought the kid puked in church…I consulted with the oracle Yahoo answers who says “lurched” means moved by the holy spirit. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

As .@wasbuxton talks about when he discusses the long-nose of innovation, the financial success of Fortnite due to paid cosmetic upgrades was really predicated by SecondLife 15 years ago. The world wasn’t ready for it. https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/3/18246868/attention-economy-fortnite-advertising-user-engagement 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

A just watched the crash test dummies mmmm mmmm mmmm. After 20-some years, I’m still confused. 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

My graduate class is flipping vans for the #VansChallenge because, you, know…science. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Valley Forge is even more awesome now. https://apnews.com/f6f6f1fda6a44d9ebce3047bc50b10f3 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL